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Stéfano Alcántara's portraiture is so lifelike, so finely detailed and nuanced, that his work should be hanging in an art gallery. But that won't ever happen. His canvases are human bodies. His artworks are tattoos. And what beautiful tattoos they are. A lovely young woman with her hair blowing in the wind. A classic image of the Archangel Michael with his sword drawn. A little boy wearing an animal skin. An eager puppy with shining eyes and a wet tongue. Malcolm X, so realistic it could be mistaken for an old black-and-white photo if it were not on a man's upper arm. In one spectacular creation, Alcántara created "Meditation of the Samurai" on...

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Stéfano Alcántara's portraiture is so lifelike, so finely detailed and nuanced, that his work should be hanging in an art gallery. But that won't ever happen. His canvases are human bodies. His artworks are tattoos.
And what beautiful...

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